1. In order to protect the health, morals and welfare of the State of New Jersey, whenever the county prosecutor of any county of the State of New Jersey receives credible information that wild, cultivated, or hidden growth or beds of alleged Marihuana weed are located anywhere within the county, the county prosecutor shall immediately communicate such information to the Department of Health. The Department of Health, upon receipt of such information, shall immediately dispatch one of its agents to the location who shall make an examination and determination of the alleged Marihuana weed so as to determine the existence or nonexistence of Marihuana weed at the location, and the Department of Health shall immediately communicate by writing its determination to the aforesaid county prosecutor and the Department of Agriculture. “Marihuana” shall not mean hemp or a hemp product cultivated, handled, processed, transported, or sold pursuant to the “New Jersey Hemp Farming Act,” P.L.2019, c.238 (C. 4:28-6 et al.).

L.1939, c.248, s.1; amended 2018, c.139, s.9; 2019, c.238, s.13.